Luigi Rizzi

Biography

Luigi Rizzi was born in Genoa on 3 June 1952. He is full professor of general linguistics at the University of Siena. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, at the University of Pisa and at the University of Paris VIII.  He has taught at the linguistic departments of several European and American universities; he was also an ordinary professor at the University of Geneva, an associate professor at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris). He is an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America. He is Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He is a member of the Academia Europaea. He was awarded the International Research Chair Blaise Pascal of the Ile de France Region, activated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is co-director of the Journal of Generative Grammar for thirty years. He was European Editor of Linguistic Inquiry for over a decade. He is part of the scientific committee of several magazines, including Language Acquisition, Probus, English Linguistics, Linguistics Magazine, Intelligent Systems, Studying Linguistics, Frontiers in Language Sciences, Studies in Chinese Linguistics; is "associated" with Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Research Interest

Linguistics